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# equivalent — English to French

How English *equivalent* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [equivalent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/equivalent/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: equivalent (50 287), equivalents (2 804). By style: everyday 19 · literary 3 · parliamentary 1 383 · legal and administrative 21 946 · UN documents 29 740.

## équivalent

Used about 35 354 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 717 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 517 · UN documents ≈ 16 109). Forms: équivalent, équivalente, équivalents.

- What's the male **equivalent** of a starlet?
  Quel est l'**équivalent** masculin d'une starlette ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#6900685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6900685) [\#6777980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6777980))

- “—And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an **equivalent** must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages—”
  --...Et quant à moi, quoique je sois à peine légiste et tout au plus procureur amateur, je soutiens ceci: qu'aux termes de la coutume de Normandie, à la Saint-Michel, et pour chaque année, un **Équivalent** devait être payé au profit du seigneur, sauf autrui droit, par tous et un chacun, tant les propriétaires que les saisis d'héritage, et ce, pour toutes emphytéoses, baux, alleux, contrats domaniaires et domaniaux, hypothécaires et hypothécaux....
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14499)

- Someone said earlier that it is the 21st century **equivalent** of slavery.
  Quelqu’un a dit précédemment que c’est l’**équivalent** de l’esclavage au XXIe siècle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 572598)

- **Equivalent** live weight kg
  **Équivalent** poids vif (en kg)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3625743)

- Currency Amount **Equivalent** in USD
  **Équivalent** en dollars É.-U.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14855543)

## dollars

Used about 1 241 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 1 239).

- How many yen are four dollars **equivalent** to?
  Combien de yens ça fait, quatre **dollars** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12235391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12235391) [\#13646917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13646917))

- That would occur at a climate cost effectiveness of about $4.8 per tonne CO2-**equivalent**.
  Une telle opération se ferait pour un coût-efficacité d &apos; environ 4,8 **dollars** par tonne éqCO2.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 30321806)

- How many yen are four dollars **equivalent** to?
  À combien de yens correspondent quatre **dollars** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12235391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12235391) [\#13646916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13646916))

- As at 16 November 2011, 1,000 pesos were **equivalent** to 0.5199 United States dollars and to 0.3871 euros.
  Au 16 novembre 2011, 1 000 pesos équivalaient à 0,5199 **dollars** des États-Unis et à 0,3871 euros.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27782309)

- For the 2009 fiscal year, the **equivalent** impact was $27.9 million or 1.6 per cent of the total expenditure.
  Pour l &apos; année 2009, ces incidences étaient d &apos; un montant de 27,9 millions de **dollars**, soit 1,6 % du montant total des dépenses.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25507792)

## trésorerie

Used about 310 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 310).

- Net increase in cash and cash **equivalents**
  Accroissement net de la **trésorerie** et des quasi-espèces
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 7508874)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- It's **equivalent** to sawing off the branch you're sitting on.
  C'est comme couper la branche sur laquelle tu es assis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7778479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7778479) [\#8537600](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8537600))

- His request was **equivalent** to an order.
  Ses désirs étaient des ordres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#285482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/285482) [\#15318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15318))

- A kilo of ketchup is **equivalent** to two kilos of tomatoes.
  Un kilo de ketchup correspond à deux kilos de tomates.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by miry and Elliv · checked, community translation · [\#934017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/934017) [\#3692360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3692360))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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